Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

I think that the essential instruction of the Bible is very much topical. The sole problem is that with every change of historical setting, you need to readjust the interpretation of the message.

Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished.

Our bad luck is that our writing is linear, while we think circularly.

The art of walking on quicksand is still beyond me. What I learned is only how difficult this art is to master and how hard people need to struggle to learn it.

Never paint epic canvases during the revolution, because the revolutionaries will tear them apart.

What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material - objectified - traces of consumer choices.